Health Policy and Planning SPH5223 (test 1)

WHAT is POLICY? astatement emphsize on all except one

• content

• process

• power

• no frame line

• money spend

Why the health plociy is important? all are true except one

• Size of the sector

• a driver of economy

• public funds

• large numbers of population in contact with health services

• involve life and death

Health Policy Era’s are all of the following except one

• Postdevelopment era

• Post-independen

• Transition period

• Regulation/deregulation

• Market dominance

Common Short Coming of Healthcare Delivery are the following except

• Inverse care

• cheap care

• Impoverishing care

• Unsafe care

• Misdirected care

All of the following excpt one are theories of Public Policy

• Institutionalism

• Process

• Group Theory

• The new theory

• Rationalism

All of the following excpt one are theories of Public Policy

• Incrementalism

• Game Theory

• Public Choice Theory

• The individual theory

• Kingdon-Garbage Can Model

Which one of the following statements is wrong?

• Incrementalism: Public policy as variations on the past

• Rationalism: Public policy as maximum social gain

• Process Model: Public policy as integrated process

• Institutionalism: Public policy as institutional output

• Group Theory: Public policy as group equilibrium

Questions you should be able to answer about each of the theories or models you will be exposed to in policy analysis, All but one

• Who participates in policy making?

• How are policy decisions made?

• Why did the participates make policy decisions?

• What are the underlying assumptions of the theory?

• What are the consequences for the general public?

Policy actors are those who (all but one)

• Identify problems or issues as worthy of attention

• Prevent problems or issues being considered

• Shape the design of proposed policies

• Develop the strategies through which policies are developed and implemented

• Block the implementation

Principles of the Ethical Practice of Public Health (all are true except one)

• A code of ethics for public health clarifies the distinctive elements of public health and the ethical principles that follow.

• Last option is wrong

• It makes clear to populations and communities the ideals of the public health institutions that serve them.

• A code of ethics thus serves as a goal to guide public health institutions and practitioners and as a standard to which they can be held accountable.

• Codes of ethics are typically relatively brief; they are not

  designed to provide a means of untangling convoluted ethical issues.